Money, Success, and Spirituality: The Wartime Political Economy of Esoterism in Russia

• In Event: State-Society Relations in Wartime Russia

Brief Overview

In Russia, the occult has grown into a multi-billion-dollar sector. The paper argues that, the socio-cultural factors aside, economic uncertainty, labor market rigidities, and international sanctions contributed to the resurgence of esoterism.

Author

• Dinissa S. Duvanova, Lehigh University